TheDonBrewerExperience Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Please keep these coming! I have a ton of spikes that I'll be working with as soon as I get my forge finished. I'm definitely digging the roses! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antigoth24 Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 i know this doesnt have any look of a RR spike about it anymore but thats what the handle and cap for this cane are made from. railroad spikes are oh so handy :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John NC Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 How about a bottle opener? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 Yeah, bottle opener and tomahawk are the not too imaginative RR spike projects. I've tried a knife or two but they get a little too "freeform" on me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winston Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Here is a tomahawk I made on accident. I was really just beating a spike for hammer practice. It just took shape as I was hammering. This was my first blade of any kind. I had some help on punching the hole from another blacksmith. In this picture I had just shoved a handle in it. I have since shaped a handle and attached it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob S Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 How about a bottle opener? I like it. Nice work John. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John NC Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 I like it. Nice work John. Bob Thanks Bob. A young lady came by the shop last month and bought it as a Christmas present for her father. I hope he enjoys it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divermike Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 I am a simple kind of guy, I broke the handle off my wire brush, sooooooo I just made a twisted spike into a handle, It's visible in the thread, "what do you have a lot of laying around", or something like that, tried to upload on the new format and it failed repeatedly, oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGUNDOCTOR Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 I like this post, as I have buckets of spikes laying around. I am mainly interested in items where the spike is still identifiable as a RR spike. Otherwise it looks like any other item made from bar stock. The door knocker is sharp. The bottle opener would be great for a RR worker, or RR enthusiast. I like the Hawks, and knives where the spike head is left intact. Again, good gifts for RR fans. I could see making one of those cut, and unfolded crosses with the short arms being the split head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacksmith777 Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 It shows many RR spike usings. The original link is http://www.appaltree.net/aba/images/projects/KootenayRailroadSpikeContes.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topsawn Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 Hi Everybody, Here are few items that I forged from r/r spikes. I'm calling the knife shaped objects letter-openers because they're forged from low carbon spikes. Our blacksmithing group has some events (hands-on) coming up and my hopes are to get some of the more experienced smiths to maybe help me finish them. The coat-rack was a spur of the moment thing. Snow bound for about a week, cabin fever drove me to the shop and this was the only thing I could complete using my scrap bucket. Hooks are low carbon spikes, saving my H/C spikes until my skill level improves, split with a hot cutter and drifted with the bar stock that later became the mounting bar. Bar was textured with a small ball peen hammer that has seen better days, but leaves a nice pattern. Used a home-made spring fuller to neck down the bar ends. Look them over and let me know what you think, so-far less than 30 hrs. at forge so be easy. OK? David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markb Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 Here's a twist I did a while back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB IZM Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Here are my only three things that I have ever forged. A simple knife, spoon rest and ladle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highwayman Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 Hey guys, I live in oyster country (Charleston, SC) So i have been making a lot of these lately. It is a RR Spike Oyster Knife. Works great, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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